Example sentences of "have [to-vb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of her rent — £96 a month — is covered by housing benefit but she still has to pay about half of her poll tax . |
| 2 | Under the agreement , the USA would have to destroy about 20,000 tonnes of chemical weapon stocks and the Soviet Union about 45,000 tonnes . |
| 3 | Lose weight or inches : Exercise alone is unlikely to bring about a great weight loss — in fact you would have to run about two miles to use up 200 calories . |
| 4 | He must have to have about half a dozen though , must n't he ? |
| 5 | Children will have to pay about ten pence extra ? |
| 6 | To consume the same quantity of' calories in the form of whole oranges you would have to eat about five of them . |
| 7 | And for next time I 'll get some erm a special set of tables for him a lot easier to learn so that he can learn his tables and he 'll only have to learn about half of them and then he 'll know all of them . |
| 8 | And you used to have to fetch your water from the pump 's head , just round the corner , outside toilets , we used to have to go about fifty yards to use the toilet . |
| 9 | We 're goin' to have to cut about six inches off them knicker legs . ’ |
| 10 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
| 11 | Right , yesterday on the way to scho , on the way to the bus we had to wait about five minutes I was slowly going see |
| 12 | I had to wait about ten minutes while he was interviewing someone in connection with a current case , and then I was taken to his room . |
| 13 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |
| 14 | I 'll tell you about that in a minute and then er I er had to go about forty times for permission . |
| 15 | Was happily pottering about there , did my own thing , I had to open about nine cards when I got home , I did n't think at all |
| 16 | And I had to walk about fifty yards to get to the van because it was it was in an area that had been partly pedestrianized . |
| 17 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 18 | Because I changed out there , but we had to pay about five pounds just to change from one line to the other . |
| 19 | Who was tha who was that oh for goodness sake tall thin gaunt looking man , always had to have about fifteen spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee whenever I met him ? |
| 20 | I had to travel about five miles on the bypass , and as the mini was elderly used the slow lane , to be sandwiched between a milk lorry ahead and a crowded estate-car , roughly as old as the mini , behind . |
| 21 | have to leave about half past six in the morning |
| 22 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 23 | Oh well , it 's like a stall you get erm but I have n't got a ticket , Becky said you have to pay about ten P to get in . |
| 24 | Now there 's no need to learn all of the tables erm er what I will do is if you want any more lessons I 'll do you some special tables cut down so you only have to learn about half the normal and then you 'll know them all cos if you know two sixes . |